John Sherman COOPER

(1901-1991)

Senate Years of Service:

1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973

Party:

Republican; Republican;
Republican

COOPER, John Sherman, a
Senator from Kentucky; born in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky.,
August 23, 1901; attended the public schools at Somerset and Centre
College, Danville, Ky.; graduated from Yale College 1923; attended
Harvard Law School 1923-1925; admitted to the bar in 1928 and
commenced practice in Somerset, Ky.; member, Kentucky house of
representatives 1928-1930; judge of Pulaski County, Ky., 1930-1938;
member of the board of trustees of the University of Kentucky
1935-1946; served during the Second World War in the United States
Army 1942-1946, attaining the rank of captain; elected circuit
judge of the twenty-eighth judicial district of Kentucky in 1945
and served until his resignation in November 1946; elected on
November 5, 1946, as a Republican to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albert B. Chandler
and served from November 6, 1946, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1948; resumed the practice of law;
delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1949 and
alternate delegate in 1950 and 1951; served as adviser to the
Secretary of State at the London and Brussels meetings of the
Council of Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in
1950; elected on November 4, 1952, as a Republican to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Virgil M.
Chapman and served from November 5, 1952, to January 3, 1955;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954; Ambassador to India
and Nepal 1955-1956; delegate, United Nations General Assembly
1968; elected on November 6, 1956, as a Republican to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alben W.
Barkley; reelected in 1960, and again in 1966, and served from
November 7, 1956, to January 3, 1973; was not a candidate for
reelection in 1972; Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic
1974-1976; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and was
a resident of Somerset, Ky., and Washington, D.C., until his death
in Washington, D.C., February 21, 1991; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.